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<br />55 5th Street East, Suite 1400, St. Paul, MN, 55101      www.redpathcpas.com <br />COMMUNICATION WITH THOSE CHARGED WITH GOVERNANCE <br /> <br /> <br />To the Honorable Mayor and <br />Members of the City Council <br />City of Lino Lakes, Minnesota <br /> <br />We have audited the financial statements of the governmental activities, the business-type <br />activities, each major fund, and the aggregate remaining fund information of the City of Lino <br />Lakes, Minnesota (the City) for the year ended December 31, 2022. Professional standards <br />require that we provide you with information about our responsibilities under generally <br />accepted auditing standards and Government Auditing Standards and the Uniform Guidance, <br />as well as certain information related to the planned scope and timing of our audit. We have <br />communicated such information in our letter to you dated December 19, 2022. Professional <br />standards also require that we communicate to you the following information related to our <br />audit. <br /> <br />Significant Audit Matters <br /> <br />Qualitative Aspects of Accounting Practices <br /> <br />Management is responsible for the selection and use of appropriate accounting policies. The <br />significant accounting policies used by the City are described in Note 1 to the financial <br />statements. As described in Note 17 to the financial statements, the City adopted new <br />accounting guidance for 2022, Governmental Accounting Standards Board Statement No. 87, <br />Leases. We noted no transactions entered into by the City during the year for which there is <br />a lack of authoritative guidance or consensus. All significant transactions have been <br />recognized in the financial statements in the proper period. <br /> <br />Accounting estimates are an integral part of the financial statements prepared by <br />management and are based on management’s knowledge and experience about past and <br />current events and assumptions about future events. Certain accounting estimates are <br />particularly sensitive because of their significance to the financial statements and because of <br />the possibility that future events affecting them may differ significantly from those expected. <br /> <br />The most sensitive estimates affecting the City’s financial statements are the estimated <br />present value of the lease receivable, and estimates used to calculate the net pension liability, <br />the pension related deferred outflows and inflows of resources, and pension expense. These <br />estimates are based on the City’s estimated incremental borrowing rate as of January 1, 2022 <br />and actuarial studies. We evaluated the key factors and assumptions used to develop the <br />estimates in determining that they are reasonable in relation to the financial statements taken <br />as a whole.